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CUMULATIVE EVIDENCE FOR EVOLUTION


  • Newman, H. H. The Gist of Evolution. The Macmillan Co., 1926.
  • Newman, H. H. and others. The Nature of the World and of Man. The University of Chicago Press, 1926.
  • Scott, W. B. The Theory of Organic Evolution. The Macmillan Co., 1917.

“The purpose of science is to develop, without prejudice or preconception of any kind, a knowledge of the facts, the laws and the processes of nature. The even more important task of religion, on the other hand, is to develop the consciences, the ideals and the aspirations of mankind. Each of these two activities represents a deep and vital function of the soul of man, and both are necessary for the life, the progress and the happiness of the human race.

“It is a sublime conception of God which is furnished by science, and one wholly consonant with the highest ideals of religion, when it represents Him as revealing Himself through countless ages in the development of the earth as an abode for man and in the age-long inbreathing of life into its constituent matter, culminating in man with his spiritual nature and all his Godlike powers.”—Dr. Robert A. Milliken, in Science.

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